Neo-Funk · Anthony Brancati

207 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 6:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 146-151 and 155-160 -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
NEO-FUNK · BAR 156
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 20, 28 and 47 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 19 sections: 120 keep time, 53 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-144.

CHORUS
PART W
PART AJ
PART M
PART BH
PART BN
PART BS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCAJBSMAJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Neo-Funk?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Neo-Funk hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Neo-Funk?

16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 8, 20, 28 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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